paralytic

adjective

1 her hands became paralytic:

paralysed, disabled, incapacitated, dead, numb, benumbed, powerless, immobilized;

helpless, useless.

2 British, informal a leaving party which left everyone paralytic:

drunk, intoxicated, inebriated, drunken, befuddled, incapable, tipsy, the worse for drink, under the influence, maudlin;

blind drunk, dead drunk, rolling drunk, roaring drunk, (as) drunk as a lord, (as) drunk as a skunk;

informal tight, merry, the worse for wear, woozy, pie-eyed, two/three sheets to the wind, under the table, plastered, smashed, wrecked, sloshed, soused, well oiled, sozzled, blotto, blitzed, canned, stewed, pickled, tanked (up), soaked, bombed, hammered, blasted, off one's face, out of/off one's head, out of one's skull, wasted, wired, in one's cups, reeling, cock-eyed, zonked, guttered, fuddled, stinko, ratted;

British, informal legless, steaming, bevvied, Brahms and Liszt, half cut, out of it, having had a skinful, bladdered, trolleyed, well away, squiffy, tiddly, out of one's box, having had one over the eight, cut, steamed, mullered, slaughtered, lashed;

British, vulgar slang pissed, as pissed as a newt/fart, rat-arsed, arseholed;

Scottish, informal fou;

North American, informal loaded, trashed, crock, juiced, sauced, squiffed, swacked, strung out, liquored up, out of one's gourd, in the bag, zoned, blitzed, ripped;

US, informal turnt;

Scottish, & Australian, informal full;

North American, & Australian, New Zealand, informal shickered, shot;

Australian, New Zealand, informal grogged up, as full as a goog, inked;

New Zealand, informal munted;

South African, informal lekker;

euphemistic tired and emotional;

informal , dated stoned, lit up, as tight as a tick;

British, informal , dated half seas over, pixilated;

archaic sotted, besotted, foxed, screwed;

rare crapulent, crapulous, inebriate, bibulous, ebrious, ebriose, ebriate.

▷antonyms sober.

paralytic Oxford Dictionary of English